Eye on the earth

A glimpse at the changing natural environment and how humans may be impacting it.

Oct. 10

Energy efficient lighting glows from the solar-powered Virginia Tech house during the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Ho-REUTERS

Oct. 7

Large solar panels are displayed at the International Photovoltaic Forum and Exhibition in Taipei's World Trade Center. A total of 230 companies displayed their latest lines of products during the three-day event.

Patrick Lin-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 9

A man speaks in front of a solar oven to be used for solar cooking in Ouagadougou, Africa. African policymakers recently met to discuss climate change in Ougadougou ahead of the Unite Nations climate change conference taking place in December.

Issouf Sanogo-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 9

A man cooks using a solar oven in Ougadougou.

Issouf Sanogo-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 7

A general view of the new PS20 solar plant, which was inaugurated last month at "Solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, Spain. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto towers where they produce steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity.

Marcelo Del Pozo-REUTERS

Oct. 14

A scientist looks at cages of fruit flies at the International Atomic Energy Agency laboratories near Vienna, Austria. Scientists working for the Sterile Insect Technique there are sterilizing fruit flies with radiation in order to decrease their populations.

Herwig Prammer-REUTERS

Oct. 4

Thai villagers construct a bamboo wall to protect the land along the seaside in Kok Karm, Samutsakorn province. By doing so, they succeeded in beating back the waves that had slowly robbed the seaside village of precious land.

Pairoj-AFP/Getty Images

A Burkinabe peasant from the village of Selbo village, in northern Burkina Faso, stands among the fence he erected to help stop the advance of the Sahara desert. Faced with the advancement of the Saharan desert, a result of world climate change, the peasants of Burkina Faso are fighting with little means but certain success to stop the advancement of the dunes by planting shrubs.

Issouf Sanogo-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 19

File picture of shoes ready to be sold are pictured at a workshop set up by Ethiopian Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu in Addis Ababa. With recycled tires and brightly colored fabrics, Alemu started her business, SoleRebels, five years ago in the village of Zenabework, outside Addis Ababa to help improve living conditions for its residents. Now, her recycled shoes are sold around the world.

Aaron Maasho-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 9

A Kenya Wildlife Service ranger stands next to a carcass of a buffalo that died from the prolonged drought at Tsavo West national park, southeast of Kenya's capital Nairobi. Successive failed rain seasons in Kenya have led to a drought that experts say is the worst in the country since 1996.

Thomas Mukoya-REUTERS

Oct. 9

Eole Water SAS Chief Executive Officer Marc Parent poses next to a windmill turbine, which produces drinking water by condensation from dampness of the air, in Sainte Tulle, southeastern France. This new technology allows a production of water and electricity coming from wind power.

Jean-paul Pelissier-REUTERS

Sept. 15

Toyota unveiled a new concept electric vehicle, FT-EV II, a compact four-seater with a maximum speed of 100kph, at a press preview for the Tokyo Motor Show. The show opened to the public on Oct. 23.

Yoshikazu Tsuno-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 12

Greenpeace climate change protesters wave banners from the roof of the Houses of Parliament in London, England. Approximately 20 protesters spent the night camped on the roof of the Palace of Westminster.

Oli Scarff-Getty Images

Oct. 8

Amnesty International activists participate in a demonstration at The Hague to call upon Shell to put an end to the alleged negative effects on both the people and environment from extracting oil in Nigeria.

Robin Utrecht-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 1

A photo of the long-abandoned Atlas D site, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. As U.S. Air Force officials recently marked the 50th anniversary of the deployment of nuclear missiles to sites in the rural U.S., residents in some of these communities are still grappling with a legacy of groundwater pollution from chemicals used to clean and maintain the weapons.

Mead Gruver-AP

Sept. 25

A worker waters a 400-square-meter vegetable garden in Iztapalapa, a bustling borough of two million people within the greater sprawl of Mexico City. A low-budget group has transformed a rubbish dump in an impoverished part of Mexico City into an urban garden, raising hopes for a new shade of green revolution.

Alfredo Estrella-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 12

People cross a bridge over the polluted river Jehlum in Srinagar. Deep in the Himalayas, Kashmir's biggest glacier is melting faster than any other ice body threatening the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people dependent on the region's main river, experts said.

Fayaz Kabli-REUTERS

Oct. 8

Scavengers (top) sift through a mountain of garbage temporarily piled on a city street in Manila to clear debris from roads after widespread flooding. The floods, brought by Tropical Storm Ketsana, killed nearly 300 people and displaced nearly four million others.

Jay Directo-AFP/Getty Images

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